Romans 2:17-29 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,… I. THE JEWS' GROUNDS OF DEPENDENCE. 1. Their covenant relation. The Jew expected salvation because he was a Jew. Denominationalism, rather than the living personal Christ, is too often made a ground of trust. They rested in the law as their confidence, and boasted that God was their God and they His people. 2. Their superior knowledge. Divine things had been specially revealed to them; on this ground they expected special favour of God. They forgot that superior knowledge often enhances the guilt of sin, and increases the certainty, necessity, and severity of punishment. It should make us first anxious to do right ourselves and then to lead others right. 3. The fact of circumcision. II. THE JUST PRINCIPLES OF DIVINE JUDGMENT. These are to be men's works or character, and the standard of judgment, the light we all severally enjoy. This is true both of Gentiles and Jews. The one will be judged precisely by the same principles as the other (vers. 28, 29). (C. Higgins.) Parallel Verses KJV: Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,WEB: Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God, |
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